Point taken Greg. I think you are talking about music and I'm talking about song. There's a continental drift happening I think and the gap between the two is widening.
As to Redmax, I don't get brassed off if the songs are well crafted and the lyrics incorporate the reasons why the wife has left because of the way we live today. If it's flim flam "poor me" it ain't folk, but if it's social comment, using divorce as a vehicle for expression and an evocation of our historical time, then, to me at least, it is.